Rename

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In Brief

Helps network administrators who need to quickly rename multiple computers.

Vitals

Posted:	11 Oct 2002
File Size:	8KB
License:	Free
Download:	/coolsolutions/tools/downloads/rename_duplicate.zip
Publisher:	Alain Gagne

Disclaimer

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Details

I work for a school board as a LAN Administrator. We often ghost our workstations and this causes a problem with duplicate workstation names.

To be able to import our workstations into our NDS and identify them as unique workstations objects we must rename all the computers.

1. My program renames the computer by detecting the address of the computer's network card and comparing it with the entries in the "nic.txt" file.

2. The "nic.txt" file is formatted in this manner:(NIC_Address,Computer_Name).

3. If the entry exists in the file "nic.txt", the computer will then be renamed with the name that precedes the NIC_Address.

4. If the "NIC_Address" is not found in the "nic.txt" file, you will be prompted to assign a name to that computer and this name will be used the next time the program "RENCN.EXE" is executed. The information is then saved into the "nic.txt" file.

Note: The "nic.txt" file should be in the same folder as the executable

Our team uses time utility to rename computers that have been ghosted by Symantec Ghost.

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Reader Comments

• Utility doesn't work ... Win2Ksp3, Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300, 3Com FE575C CardBus NIC. Can't figure out why. Maybe it's useful for desktops only?
• Fast execution and useful to rename computer names with the same name after the computer has been ghosted or re-installed.
• Exellent and easy to use !